A new whistleblower, a former member of Facebook's Integrity team, files an SEC complaint alleging Facebook prized profits over fighting hate speech and misinfo
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The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump's last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change
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Study: even after Twitter's QAnon crackdown in July, 93K+ active accounts have QAnon references in their profiles and the overall rate of posting has increased
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Sources detail the rising clout of Joel Kaplan and other conservatives at Facebook during the Trump administration
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Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp's Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars
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20 years since children's online protection law COPPA was passed, it has been weakened by court rulings, uneven enforcement, and relentless technological change
Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Tweets: @geoffreyfowler and @byheatherlong See also Mediagazer Tweets: Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : How does YouTube get around a law aimed at protecting k...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
DOJ opposes Facebook's efforts to dismiss fair housing groups' lawsuit claiming discriminatory ad targeting, says Communications Decency Act doesn't apply
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Oxford University researchers find Twitter bots spread misinfo and propaganda at higher rates in 2016 battleground states in 10-day period around Election Day
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The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
How To Protect Your Credit And Identity If Your Data Was Compromised Sadagopan / Sadagopan's weblog … : Equifax : Disturbing Developments Tony Zerucha / Bankless Times : Industry reacts to Equifax dat...